Michael Cusano of Glenville NY forces Registrant from home and wants people to pressure lawmakers to reinstate residency restriction laws

I'd rather live next to a Registered Person than next to this scumbag or any other vigilante filth. Cusano thinks it is not right and curses the fact that harassing registered persons is illegal. Why am I not surprised that his bosom buddy, Bryan Gonski, supports Kyle Rittenhouse, the wannabe vigilante now in trial for murder? Perhaps someday, we'll see one of these fucktards behind bars for something similar. 

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/When-sex-offender-moved-in-neighbors-petitioned-16589893.php

When sex offender moved in, neighbors petitioned to force him out

Police say parolee in Glenville neighborhood is following rules, but neighbors worry

Nov. 10, 2021

Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 10:39 a.m.

GLENVILLE — Danielle Marocco readily admits feeling a huge sense of relief when she noticed the "For Sale" sign on the lawn of a new neighbor.

That’s because she and others along a quiet suburban street in East Glenville fear the resident, a paroled Level 3 sex offender who victimized a boy, might hurt other young children. 

“We just love the area, we love the neighborhood — in the summertime the ice cream truck goes by,” said Marocco, who has lived on the street with her husband and their children since February. “This isn’t our dream house, but it’s our dream neighborhood.”

In 2006, the man at the center of the furor was charged in Warren County by State Police with one count of first-degree criminal sexual contact with a 12-year-old boy he knew, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services and the state Department of Corrections and Community Services.

The agencies' online information indicates he pleaded guilty to the offense in May 2007 and was sentenced to 14 years in prison with five years of post-release supervision. He was released to parole supervision in June 2019 and for a time lived in Schenectady before purchasing the split ranch home in Glenville, according to online sources and county real estate records. 

The 1,534-square-foot residence is now on the market with a list price of $265,000.

Thousands of people have been convicted of sex crimes in New York; those convicted of the most serious crimes appear on the public portion of the state's Sex Offender Registry, which makes it easy for residents to look up the identities of offenders living in their neighborhoods.

Frequently, the arrival of a sex offender causes disquiet among neighbors. 

In the Glenville case, another neighbor, Mike Cusano, launched an online petition on change.org titled #NotInMyNeighborhood that as of Tuesday had 572 supporters. An updated message in bold letters by the author declared victory after the man put the home up for sale. 

The petition wants him out, saying his presence has cast a pall over a neighborhood where ordinarily "the air is filled with children's laughter and kids playing outside."

The man did not respond to several attempts to contact him over the past week, including visits to his home, and phone numbers listed for him in public records have been disconnected. A parole officer listed for him online did not return a call last week seeking comment.

Daniel Lambright, a senior staff attorney with the New York Civil Liberties Union, said sexual abuse is most often carried out by someone known to the victim or the victim's family.  

"There's no empirical evidence that residency restrictions work in protecting children or protecting families," he said, "and restrictions are primarily based on a false premise that there's that stranger lurking in the bushes that is going to come out and attack their child."   

New York law forbids high-risk offenders under state or county supervision from “knowingly entering” school grounds and child care facilities, language that courts have interpreted to also mean that those offenders cannot live within 1,000 feet of a school. Multiple counties are also extending the 1,000-foot rule to cover day care facilities, preschools and other child care centers.

Resident Amelia Mindel, who also has children, rejected the notion that neighbors were trying to force the man out. Mindel was part of an Oct. 27 community meeting set up by Supervisor Chris Koetzle to discuss the issue, a meeting that included state Sen. Jim Tedisco and Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh, along with Glenville Police Chief Stephen Janik.  

“I think what we’re doing at this point is really trying to raise awareness regarding the safety of having individuals like our neighbor residing in a community that is so child-centered and child-friendly,” Mindel said, adding there is a day care and group home 800 and 500 feet away, respectively, from where the man lives with a female relative. “We’re not trying to do a witch hunt or a target,” she said. "It’s more like, what are the actual laws?” 

New York law restricts  sex offenders  who are classed Level 3 — the highest risk to repeat offense — from being within 1,000 feet of a school in a parked vehicle or knowingly being on school grounds when on parole or probation. This designation means an offender must personally verify their address every 90 days with law enforcement where they live, and that agency may take a picture if their appearance has changed. 

School grounds are defined as any area contained within the real property boundary line of the school, and may include playgrounds. The rules to not apply to day care facilities. 

Tedisco is the co-sponsor of legislation that would extend that prohibition to other facilities that host children during the day, such as day care sites and preschools. “I think the parents and the families and the community — not only in Glenville, but across the state — really have the right to be upset,” he said. 

The bill passed the Senate when Tedisco and his fellow Republicans held the majority, but it has languished in the Assembly since 2018. Democrats control both chambers and the legislation has seen little movement. Tedisco is hopeful that will change now that the legislation appears to have bipartisan support. 

The senator argued the restrictions proposed covering day care and other child care facilities are common-sense in a state that has rules in place against speeding and drug use in school zones.

Koetzle said he would like to see the proposed legislation, which the Glenville Town Board unanimously voted last week to back,     expanded to include places like group bus stops where middle and high school students congregate. He’s also advocating for the state to formally notify a municipality and school district when a registered sex offender moves in.   

Lambright said it's a myth that high-risk offenders are more likely to commit the same crime again, and that the use of a Risk Assessment Instrument is "flawed" because it draws on "a lot of factors that have nothing to do with recidivism."

"Certainly, there's of course some recidivism concerned with everybody," he said. "But the overwhelming evidence suggests that people who commit sex offenses don't recidivate any higher than any other members of the community, and further by pushing them into homelessness and anti-social situations you might be actually increasing the chance of maybe not sexual recidivism but recidivism in other kind of criminal ways, so it's real dumb policy and not policy based in any sort of facts."  

Chief Janik said the man is following all conditions of his release. 

"I cannot treat him any differently than I would any other resident when he is not committing a crime,” he said. “He will receive the same treatment that any other taxpaying citizen receives in the town of Glenville.” 

In a statement, DOCCS told the Times Union the Glenville man is in full compliance with the conditions of his release and that the parole officer makes “several contacts” with him each month. Sex offenders are monitored with supervision techniques such as electronic bracelets and periodic lie-detector testing. 

Melanie Trimble, regional director of the NYCLU Capital Region, said the group tries to educate people whose fears around an offender moving in can be inflamed by misinformation.

"What we have found is that the sex offender registry really does not help in the rehabilitation process," Trimble said. "What it does is alienate individuals from society and only causes them to go underground and hide so we're very concerned that people can't resettle and rehabilitate themselves after serving their time for crimes, and that only causes more problems down the road.

"Anybody that's served their time ought to be able to re-assimilate back into society in a way that promotes positive change in their life and have them move on," she said.

Marocco is cautiously optimistic the house will soon be sold and life can return to some kind of normalcy. 

“We’re definitely encouraged, but I don’t also want to let our guard down," she said. "And so hopefully (the house sale) goes through, and hopefully he can move somewhere that is not in a neighborhood, not in such a kid-friendly family oriented neighborhood, and he has his space, and he can be at peace in his own space, and we can have our peace and happiness in the community back."  

Makenzie Wagoner of Loogootee, Indiana tries to shut down Registrant's business

I found Makenzie's FB page, and the first thing I see is a hashtag associated with QAnon, so this tells me all I need to know about this person's education level. She also posted bogus statistics as well as her blatant misuse of the registry to harass this business owner. She should be locked up, quite frankly. Maybe instead of harassing folks who served their time and who promotes crackpot conspiracy hashtags, she she spend more time hitting the books at USI. Maybe she should take criminal justice instead of Gender Studies courses. Or she can go to OnceFallen com and get a real education.

https://www.washtimesherald.com/news/community-raises-concerns-on-operator-of-new-business/article_de015f18-2c1b-11ec-be40-a7693c0cfb41.html

Community raises concerns on operator of new business

Tim Pinkham Times Herald Oct 13, 2021 

LOOGOOTEE – The fact that a convicted sex offender has opened a tattoo shop near a preschool brought out an overflow crowd of more than 30 to Tuesday’s Loogootee City Council meeting.

Makenzie Wagoner, 19, made an impassioned plea for city officials and the public at large to take action to protect young children. She does not want the business closed, but rather forced to relocate some place away from children.

Indiana law prohibits sex offenders of minors from living within 1,000 feet of any school property, public parks and certain program centers. However, individual counties may impose other restrictions around movement, employment and alcohol consumption.

Wagoner pointed out that Indiana, unlike Illinois and a few other states, does not restrict a business owned by a convicted sex offender from being located near a school. She would like to see Indiana’s law changed.

Mayor Noel Harty said he would try to arrange a meeting in Loogootee soon between Wagoner and two local state officials, State Sen. Eric Bassler of Washington and State Rep. Shane Lindauer of Jasper.

Wagoner provided documents to the Times Herald which showed that Charles A. Taylor had been registered as a sexually violent predator in Illinois on Jan. 20, 2010. He was convicted March 8, 2005, of predatory criminal sexual assault. He was sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Taylor now lives in Loogootee. A document provided by Wagoner states the Indiana equivalent for the Illinois charge is child molesting, a felony.

Wagoner works as the youth librarian at the Loogootee Public Library. She is currently a student at the University of Southern Indiana, pursuing a double-major in early childhood education and elementary education.

“I’m fighting for this, but I should not be fighting alone,” Wagoner said. “He is going to offend again, it is only a matter of time.”

Wagoner criticized Harty for attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony last month for Taylor’s shop. She also said neither the mayor nor police chief Jim Floyd had notified the owners of the preschool nor Loogootee school officials about Taylor.

Harty said he had not found out about Tayor’s legal status as a convicted sex offender until five days after the ribbon cutting.

Floyd did not comment during the meeting, but his department issued a press release. It stated: “It has come to our attention that there are concerns about a registered sex offender opening a business in Loogootee. We are aware of this happening and found no legal authority to prohibit it. We are aware of his registry status and there is no law prohibiting the operation of this business by this individual. We, as police officers, are obligated to operate within the bounds of the law as they are written.”

Later on, the press release stated: “Freedom of speech is a constitutional right. You have the right to choose who you do business with and to express your concerns; however, harassment, intimidation, threats, violence, vandalism, etc. are illegal and may result in criminal charges.”

The sex offender registry administrator is Cpl. Joshua Seymour of the Martin County Sheriff’s Department.

Wagoner gave the Times Herald a copy of comments to her allegedly made on Facebook by Taylor. He said the law allows him to work anywhere he wants, including next to a daycare. He accused her of trying to take away from his children, stepchildren and wife. Despite his conviction, he claims he has done nothing wrong.

After she spoke, Wagoner was loudly applauded by those attending the meeting.

Darius McGowan of Atlanta, GA starts online petition to place unconstitutional marks on Georgia State IDs

I think it is a bit of irony for a person of a race that claims to hate oppression based on a group status openly promoting an act of oppression based on group status. Guess he'll be promoting sundown towns next time he gets 15 minutes of fame. 

Of course, SCOTUS has refused to hear the appeal of the state of Louisiana, whose Supreme Court had just struck down such marks as unconstitutional. 

https://eminetra.com/her-death-would-not-be-in-vain-petition-could-create-new-sex-offender-id-policy-for-atl-nightlife-news-atlanta-georgia/768577/

‘Her death would not be in vain’: Petition could create new sex offender ID policy for ATL nightlife | News – Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia 2021-10-01 07:30:00 –

Atlanta (CBS46) — New petitions can make it difficult for sex offenders to enter metro Atlanta bars and nightclubs.

The petition already has nearly 10,000 signatures and was initiated by a friend of a local bartender who was kidnapped and raped.

Chris Anthony said it seems less than two months after his friend Mariam, 27. Abdulab Taken from him, “Honestly, when you don’t have an answer, what you know is still fresh.”

Police believe DeMarcus Brinkley kidnapped Abdullah from his boyfriend’s front yard and shot her shortly thereafter.

Her murder caused anger all over the city, “We need a community leader to start talking about this, “a community member said in a city protest.

Now, a new petition launched by a friend of Mariam aims to limit access to women like Mariam by sex offenders like Brinkley.

“”This is great for simply checking someone’s ID and raising their head, “said her friend Chris Anthony.

More than 7,000 people have already signed a petition for a new law requiring sex offenders to put some marker on their Georgia ID.

“I think it’s a perfect idea,” said Chris Anthony.

Markers allow bars and clubs to closely monitor known predators.

And this isn’t the first time this has happened in Georgia.

In 2019, the most risky sex offenders in Georgia had to wear a GPS ankle monitor.

But last year, the law was considered unconstitutional by the Georgia Supreme Court.

Sex offender Tom Church said the petition might have a chance to fight.

“”The Georgian Parliament has just lost the requirement for ankle bracelets and may consider this a good compromise. So now they could think of this as something they could use instead, “said the Church of Lawyers.

Mariam’s friends, like Chris Anthony, now want state leaders to take a closer look at this.

“As her friends, we are really grateful that this happened. You know that she wasn’t just dead, but her death wasn’t a waste, but rather a call to awaken. I know.”

Triggered Campus Snowflake Caresse Boulter of Riverside City College Apparently Can't Handle the Real World

I was expecting this campus snowflake to be a gender studies major, but apparently she's a political science major, which is, incidentally, also a degree that specializes in spreading bovine excrement. God help us if she enters the workforce, especially if she becomes a public official. 

There's Registered Citizens EVERYWHERE, Caresse. Welcome to the real world. 

https://www.pe.com/2021/05/23/another-convicted-sex-offender-running-for-student-body-president-at-rcc/

Another convicted sex offender running for student body president at RCC

"What's disheartening is when there's no consideration being given to survivors of sexual abuse," says one student

For the second time in the past eight years, a convicted sex offender is running unopposed for student body president at Riverside City College, and once again it is generating quite a stir among some students.

Since enrolling at RCC in January 2019, J., 45, of Moreno Valley has been a model student and taken an active role in student government and leadership. Less than three years since his release from prison, he is seeking office in a special election this week, May 25 through May 27.

But some students have complained about Jaramillo’s criminal background and status as a registered sex offender, and at least one student has demanded that he withdraw his candidacy.

RCC senior Caresse Boulter believes administrators have been insensitive to the concerns of students, especially survivors of sexual abuse. She said she complained to Student Activities Coordinator Deborah Hall about J’s bid for president and was told nothing could be done.

“What’s disheartening is when there’s no consideration being given to survivors of sexual abuse. It is what it is and you just have to deal with it,” Boulter said in a telephone interview.

Boulter, who served in student government and leadership herself, said she has nothing personal against J. “It’s purely because I am concerned for the mental well-being of survivors at the school,” she said.

RCC spokeswoman Peggy Lomas said community colleges are open access institutions supporting anyone seeking higher education. She said J, in his two years at RCC, formerly served as the director of special events and is now the director of the Inter Club Council.

“In student government, he’s been nothing but a model leader,” Lomas said.

Moving forward

J said in an email he has been diligent in following the conditions of his parole and was deemed by the state to not be a threat to public safety.

“I understand the severity of the nature of my offense and have taken tremendous steps to learn and grow from it,” J said, adding that he understands the concerns of some students about his past transgressions.

“I will continue to advocate for students to ensure that victims of any crime can receive the help they need,”  J said. “I will also advocate for formerly incarcerated students, of any crime, to be allowed the same opportunity to achieve higher education in a safe college environment.”

Conviction disclosed

J’s conviction was revealed to students during a recent meeting of RCC’s Inter Council Club, of which J is the director, when a student broached the subject, Boulter said.

Boulter said she personally asked J to withdraw from the election on Friday, May 14. She said she also spoke out against Jaramillo’s candidacy at the most recent ICC meeting on Monday, May 17, but was not allowed to directly address J. Instead, student body Vice President Stefany Moctezuma Perez fielded the questions regarding J, Boulter said.

Perez could not be reached for comment.

“Now that this news is out, what’s going to be done for students interested in joining clubs or in student government?” Boulter asked. “It’s actually triggering to see that there’s somebody who has this record who’s now in the position of power making decisions for students.”

Lomas would not comment further on how the college was addressing student complaints, nor how many complaints college administrators received about J’s sex offender status.

Model student

J, who was released from prison in October 2018, joined the Transitioning Minds club at RCC shortly after enrolling more than two years ago. The club assists formerly incarcerated students with their educational goals. He was subsequently appointed special events council director and then took on the role this year as Inter Council Club director.

He said he is on track to complete his associate degree in welding technologies and is also pursuing a degree in entrepreneurship. “My goal is to open my own business, with the skills and knowledge gained here at RCC,” J said.

Among J’s other leadership responsibilities at RCC include serving as the student body representative for several college committees as well as for the Riverside Community College District’s Board of trustees.

J has been forthright about his conviction, and told RCC’s student newspaper Viewpoints he would be willing to address the matter with the student body during a live forum, but would not go into details. When he enrolled at RCC, J said the first thing he did was report his conviction and sex offender status to campus police.

Boulter said she understands J has rights and has paid his debt to society. She even commends him on his academic successes and ambition. But she remains disturbed by what she says is the lack of concern of college administrators and other student body leaders.

If J becomes student body president, Boulter said, it can potentially trigger painful memories and traumas for survivors of sexual abuse.

“It’s just a big mess, and it’s an unfortunate situation,” Boulter said.

The arrest of Offendex extortionist Charles "Chuck" Rodrick is an event over a half-decade in the making

For nearly a decade, Charles "Chuck" Rodrick lived high off the hog by using the registry to extort victims out of millions. But his time is finally up. 

Look at those soulless eyes and that unkempt appearance. This isn't Rodrick's first rodeo. In fact, Rodrick and his cohort Oesterblad were busted for fraud back in the 1990s.

This arrest should have happened as far back as 2011. I'm not sure what finally prompted the FBI to finally lock this loser up. He has spent years avoiding the law while continuing his campaign of online terror, and soon he'll be more permanently in a familiar location.  Courtkey.com, formerly owned by Sucky Chucky, now owned by one of his victims, has full coverage of the Rodrick arrest. 

https://apnews.com/article/us-news-arizona-phoenix-ebb4b491d744316e6faa403b9d3697ac

Arizona man charged in scheme targeting sex offenders

By JACQUES BILLEAUD

4/8/21

PHOENIX (AP) — Three people have been charged with fraud in Arizona in what prosecutors say was a harassment scheme to get payments from sex offenders in exchange for removing their names from a website.

In an indictment released Thursday, Charles Rodrick of Scottsdale and Brent Oesterblad are accused of obtaining information from the National Predator Database’s site and posting it on a site created by Rodrick.

Prosecutors say Rodrick, Oesterblad and Sarah Shea then received money for removing the names from Rodrick’s site but failed to do so or republished the victims’ profiles on other sites owned by Rodrick. They also said the trio harassed others whose names weren’t listed in the National Predator Database by posting fraudulent sex offender profiles on Rodrick’s websites.

Rodrick, 60, was taken into custody Tuesday at Sky Harbor International Airport as he was returning from Costa Rica.

At Rodrick’s first court hearing, prosecutor Nicole Shaker said Rodrick has a separate $3 million civil judgment against him in Maricopa County for the victims in the criminal case, yet he hasn’t paid them anything. Shaker said Rodrick uses limited liability corporations and girlfriends to hide his assets.

At the hearing, Rodrick said the FBI had tried to build a federal case against him several years ago, but the case was turned down by a federal grand jury. “For this to surface now in 2021 is a shock to me,” Rodrick said.

Shaker disputed that the current case went before a federal grand jury.

Bond was set at $30,000 for Rodrick, who also was ordered to wear an ankle monitor when outside of jail.

Messages left Thursday for Rodrick’s attorney, Kristopher Califano, weren’t immediately returned.

It’s unclear whether Oesterblad and Shea have attorneys who can comment on their clients’ behalf.

Although Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office released the indictment, the court file itself wasn’t publicly available at midday Thursday. Oesterblad and Shea didn’t have listed phone numbers.

Barney Bishop III has no business running the Florida Smart Justice Alliance, a statewide criminal justice reform advocacy group

What is the Florida Smart Justice Alliance? From their "About Us" page:

The Smart Justice Alliance’s goals are to:

• Make Florida’s communities safer;
• Save the taxpayers money; and
• Hold offenders accountable while providing the tools for them to live law-abiding lives

Any serious attempt to create meaningful change in Florida’s approach to criminal justice must be comprehensive and include all stakeholders.  Therefore, mission Number One for the Florida Smart Justice Alliance will be to forge consensus among the broad range of affected parties – including law enforcement, prosecutors and public defenders, the judiciary, state government, victim rights groups, service providers and the business community. Members of the Alliance are working to develop policies that:

• Minimize the extent to which children and the mentally ill are locked up;
• Incorporate assessment tools to effectively guide sentencing diversion alternatives and reentry; and
• Make greater system-wide use of evidenced-based programs that reduce costs and lower recidivism.

Based on the words of Barney Bishop, however (who is no stranger to the Shiitake Awards), the Florida Smart Justice Alliance needs to do a lot of soul searching. Barney Bishop, in a testimony to the Florida House Judiciary Committee on March 3, offered this gem of a comment regarding a proposed 50 year minimum sentence for sex offenses law in committee:

"We think that very long sentences are warranted; in fact, we'd like longer sentences. And I would just say in closing that with respect to smart justice that maybe what we ought to really be doing is thinking about giving the victims’ families an opportunity to have visitation with the perpetrators and a pair of scissors. That's our idea of smart justice, Mr. Chairman, not anything short of that."

(ADDENDUM: It seems Barney Bishop has a failing memory, so the offending statement can be found by CLICKING HERE and going to about one hour 51 minutes into the video. For the impatient types, the clip is below as well)

This is NOT the type of person running a criminal justice reform agency. He should resign immediately. Then again, his "Smart Justice Alliance" can't seem to keep staff around for long so it appears this "alliance" is an alliance of one. As noted by FAC, Barney Bishop is the lobbyist for The Wakulla County Sheriffs Department. Last year Wakulla County had to pay City Walk $160,000 to settle a lawsuit. Think Barney should have mentioned this in his opinion piece. Sketchy!

I'd gladly challenge Barney Bishop III on the issues in a face-to-face meeting. He can even bring a pair of scissors if he likes but he better keep them to himself. But since his cowardly response is to threaten me with a gun and arrest, like the cowardly thug that he truly is, I'll be content with showing him up for the fool he is. BTW, fuck the NRA, bragging about your membership just proves you're a kook. 

It is even funnier as Bishop got into it with black FL Rep Ramon Alexander by telling him the KKK and the Nazis have the right to free speech and if you don't like it, walk away. Oh, and Barney Bishop apparently thinks "smart justice" is having 6 year old kids arrested for bad behavior at school. 

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2021/02/18/tallahassee-homeless-issue-city-walk-shelter-needs-move/6771847002/

City Walk shelter violates zoning code and needs to move out of the neighborhood | Opinion

Barney Bishop III Your Turn

A recent column mentioning the shelter on Mahan Drive cites it as a “homeless” shelter.  It is also a “low barrier” shelter for sex offenders. It is to be expected that supporters of this facility would neglect to cite this fact and attempt to obscure the issue as a homeless issue.

While it was initially only to be used as a temporary cold night shelter, City Walk shelter was surreptitiously and illegally transformed into a permanent shelter that includes sex offenders.

It is across the street from Hilltop Academy and near public schools. This violates Florida law, common sense, and is highly inappropriate. Moreover, the neighbors were never notified of the change. In one article, Renee Miller, the executive director, claims they looked in the city code and did not find any restrictions that applied to them.

There is no need to check the city code if this shelter is temporary and only for cold nights. But there are restrictions if its usage is changed to a permanent location with sex offenders. So Ms. Miller knew exactly what she was doing from the beginning. For that alone, the permanent request for a zoning change should be rejected out-of-hand, if not for the other reason that you do not reward a purposeful violator of the city code. 

A low barrier sex offender shelter is defined as a facility that provides food, drink and a bed to sex offenders, but no treatment is provided whatsoever. They can come and go as they please. Consequently, women and children have every right to fear for their safety.

Ms. Miller knows full well, having been a shelter provider in other locations, that sex offenders must register every time they move. Her lack of oversight is unprofessional and dangerous. Sex offenders have strict statutory requirements and one newspaper story indicated one of the sex offenders was already on probation, which means they have already violated the law.

I have worked as a lobbyist for nonprofits that deal with issues of substance abuse/mental health, juvenile justice and adult corrections for 28 years now. My clients put facilities like this in industrial areas, where neighborhoods are not adversely impacted. Warehouses and such are not incompatible neighbors, and so long as there is a bus line nearby, the shelter occupants still have access to grocery stores, social services, etc. 

It is for these reasons that both Florida Smart Justice Alliance and Citizens for Responsible Spending oppose any attempt to keep the shelter on Mahan Drive — under any circumstances or restrictions — in its current location. We certainly oppose it being there as a permanent location.

Lisa DURRRden, disgraced ex-adjunct professor fire for racist rant, believes criticism of Kamala Harris's former sex offender policy is "racist" and "sexist"

I have gotten many crazy accusations over the years from random people on the Internet. Over the years, I've been accused of being a plant for the Soviet Communist state (I can't even figure out why), an ultra-right-wing gay basher (because I was allowed to write a response to an article written by a right wing conservative), and even an operative for the "Deep State" (because QAnon conspiracy nuts are, well, just plain nuts.) Oh, and don't forget that Perpetual Victim Barbie compared me to the Parkland School Shooter. 

But an accusation of racism and misogyny for not supporting Kamala Harris due to her past public policies on Registered Citizens is the dumbest accusation that I've heard in a while. 

When Kamala Harris (a former sex crimes prosecutor) was California's Attorney General, she attempted to ban all Registered Persons in the state from social media. This makes me skeptical of her willingness on even considering registry reform. 

Apparently, Lisa Durden took offense to my lack of support for Kamala Harris as "racism" and "sexism". 

Folks, there are certain people who think if you have a dislike for a politician, that must be because you hate women/ blacks:

She becomes more unhinged during her email exchanges, including such things like Indians are black or that every white man is a racist. 

Lisa DURRR-den was fired a couple of years ago from a job she got as an adjunct professor after she went on a Fox News show spouting black supremacist rhetoric. The Essex County Colege decided to fire her for the racist rant; she's currently suing over (ironically) accusing the college of racism for letting her go. 

I've already reported her to LinkedIn, and I will let the college see what she's written, so she has not hurt her case. All this because she can't accept some folks just dislike the policy of a politician she only likes because of her gender and skin color. 

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2018/04/16/fired-professor-sues-college-claiming-her-free-speech-violationshttps-presto-gannettdigital/521563002/

Professor fired after defending blacks-only event to Fox News. ‘I was publicly lynched,’ she says.

By 

Samantha Schmidt

June 26, 2017 at 8:25 a.m. UTC

After Black Lives Matter hosted a 'blacks-only' Memorial Day party, Tucker Carlson asked a BLM supporter why such an event is acceptable. "Boo-hoo-hoo, you white people are angry because you couldn't use your 'white privilege' card to get invited to the Black Lives Matter's all-black Memorial Day celebration," she replied. http://bit.ly/2qZI5je

Posted by Fox News on Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Earlier this month, political commentator Lisa Durden gave a fiery interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, defending a Black Lives Matter chapter’s decision to host a Memorial Day event exclusively for black people.

“Boo-hoo-hoo,” Lisa Durden, who is also an adjunct professor at Essex County College in Newark, said in the June 6 television appearance. “You white people are angry because you couldn’t use your ‘white privilege’ card to get invited to the Black Lives Matter’s all-black Memorial Day celebration.”

In the heated exchange, Carlson responded by calling her “hostile and separatist and crazy.”

“You’re demented actually,” he said. “You’re sick and what you’re saying is disgusting and if you were a Nazi I would say the same thing to you.”

Durden’s remarks spurred both criticism and praise on social media. But what happened less than 48 hours later prompted an even stronger reaction.

On June 8, with about a week left of her summer session of teaching, Durden’s employers at Essex County College suspended her. About two weeks later, Durden was fired from the community college.

The college’s president announced the decision in a lengthy statement Friday, days after Durden met with school officials in a community forum.

Anthony E. Munroe, Essex County College president, said the administration was “immediately inundated with feedback from students, faculty and prospective students and their families expressing frustration, concern and even fear that the views expressed by a College employee (with influence over students) would negatively impact their experience on the campus.”

“In consideration of the College’s mission, and the impact that this matter has had on the College’s fulfillment of its mission, we cannot maintain an employment relationship with the adjunct,” Munroe said in the statement.

But Durden said the firing was unjust and baseless. She claimed “there was no due process, there were no facts.”

“I was publicly lynched,” Durden said in an interview with The Washington Post. “They didn’t let me finish the class and they disrupted the learning process.”

Durden — who began her first semester of teaching at the school in January — was wrapping up the first summer session of classes and was already scheduled for the fall semester. As an adjunct professor, she teaches classes on subjects such as mass communication and popular culture.

She said she was given no reason for the suspension, though a human resources representative explained to her verbally that it was in part because she identified her relationship to the college in the interview, Durden said. This was not the case — the show simply identified her as a political commentator.

“I had a right to free speech, and I exercised that right,” Durden said.

Durden, whose media commentary focuses on issues such as pop culture, race and politics, said she was invited onto “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss the Black Lives Matter event. She did not choose the subject of the conversation, she said.

“This particular day was a hard topic,” Durden said. “It was a debate. It was not meant to be something that was an easy conversation.”

Any time commentators discuss a controversial topic on television, there will be people who agree and disagree, Durden said. There were many people on social media commending her statements, and yet the university chose to take actions as a result of the negative responses, Durden said.

Essex County College is federally designated as a Predominantly Black Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution. It has a large black student population and its new president, Munroe, is black.

“I am that population,” Durden said. “I live in Newark. I was born and raised in Newark.”

“I decided to come back to Newark because this is my community,” she added.

In his statement, Munroe said the college “supports and affirms the right of free speech and independent views and expressions of those views for our faculty and staff.” But he added that it denounces “any conduct that implies that all students are not welcome to participate in, or benefit from, our programs or activities on the basis of their race, color, orientation or national origin.”

Durden told The Post that in retrospect, she wishes she would have made clear in her interview on Fox News that when she mentioned “white people” she referred only to the white people who were upset about the Black Lives Matter event.

“I will apologize if a person assumed I meant all white people,” Durden said. “I never meant all white people.”

“All white people aren’t racist,” she said.

Her remarks — in which she compared the Black Lives Matter event to a wedding that excludes children — drew intense backlash on social media. Many commended the college’s decision over the weekend, calling her a “disgusting racist,” “angry racist” and “racist pig.” One conservative writer called her a “Black Supremacist.”

Many of these accusations and portrayals feed into existing stereotypes about black women, Durden said.

“When you’re an African American woman,” she said, “when you are your personality, you are called an angry black woman.”

“Reverse racism,” she added, “doesn’t exist.”

Hull, UK resident Amy Gray impersonates ex-boyfriend to set him and new girlfriend up for vigilante sting operation

It isn't often we nominate someone from the UK here but this case is well deserving of a Shiitake Award. 

What is even more disturbing is that police detained the couple for 12 hours after prodding by a disgusting vigilante scumbag group instead of arresting the vigilantes. 

(Maybe if some British person stumbles upon my blog, I can get an explanation of the term "Fred West prank.")

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/amy-gray-fred-west-prank-4877180

Woman's cruel 'Fred West' prank saw ex-partner hounded by paedophile hunters 'to teach him a lesson'

Amy Gray was angry that her ex had left her for another woman so pretended to meet a 14-year-old for sex

By Sophie CorcoranSenior Reporter

17:04, 11 JAN 2021

A Hull woman hacked into her ex-boyfriend's Facebook account, arranged to meet a 14-year-old for sex and then alerted a paedophile vigilante group in a bizarre revenge plot.

Amy Gray, 37, of Great Thornton Street, said she was angry that her ex had left her for another woman and in November 2018 decided to teach him a lesson.

Gray - who had helped the man set up a Facebook profile - used his passwords to log on and message a 14-year-old girl that was later revealed to be a decoy set up by a paedophile vigilante group.

Hull Crown Court heard on Monday that Gray - pretending to be her ex-boyfriend - arranged to meet the underage girl on Newland Avenue for sex.

Ben Thomas, prosecuting, told the court she had also used her ex-partner's new girlfriend's name, claiming they wanted the girl to take part in a "threesome."

In an interview with police, Gray told officers it would be a "bonus" for her love rival to get into trouble too.

"Predator's Exposed," the group behind the decoy, then made their way to Newland Avenue expecting to catch Gray's ex-partner, who is in fact already on the Sex Offender's Register.

Mr Thomas told the court: "Of course no one turned up to meet them so they went to his house as his address had been given in some of the messages."

The man answered the door to see six members of the group who had travelled to confront him.

They were filming the video and posting it live onto Facebook.

During the interception the man was called a "dirty, vile piece of s***", a "jelly bellied b******" and even Fred West.

His new partner was also apprehended by the group and told she could not answer her mobile phone. The woman's concerned mother had found out through her niece that her daughter was being live streamed on Predator's Exposed's Facebook page and was trying to get hold of her.

Humberside Police were called and the couple were taken into custody, detained for 12 hours and interviewed.

Mr Thomas told the court that their house was searched and their phones were analysed.

However, Gray was eventually caught out when officers realised the IP address of where the messages were sent from was her address.

Her ex-partner was the subject of a tag which also showed he had not been to her house when the messages were sent, proving it was Gray behind the messages.

Mr Thomas said: "In an interview she said she wanted revenge. She knew how much the video would be shared and she wanted him in prison so he and his new partner couldn't be together."

In a victim personal statement the man told how he and his partner had been forced to move away from Hull, have been shouted at in the street and even had their home doused in graffiti.

The woman said she did not leave her home on her own for nine months.

The court heard how Gray has a previous conviction for three offences of sexual assault, for which she was convicted in 2005.

However, her barrister, Amber Hobson, told the court these took place when Gray was living as a man. She transitioned into a woman a year later.

Ms Hobson said: "She struggled with her identity most of her life and lived her life in the shadows. Perhaps that has taken a toll on her and affected her mental health. She has one previous conviction from a very different time in her life when she was living as a man. She worked with the probation service and found it very helpful.

"She says that offending was born out of confusion with her identity and not an attraction to children or women."

Ms Hobson appealed to Judge David Tremberg, telling her Gray would struggle in prison as a transgender woman.

She added that Gray is remorseful and that the author of a pre-sentence report had come to the conclusion that Gray is at low-risk of reoffending.

"She didn't foresee the level of scrutiny they would be subjected to," Ms Hobson added.

As he jailed Gray for five years for perverting the course of justice, Judge Tremberg told her: "You wanted to make him suffer and cause maximum harm and degradation to his emotional wellbeing, status and reputation. If that caused harm and distress to his girlfriend that was a bonus for you.

"You exposed them to an ordeal of public humiliation."